Wednesday, July 25, 2018

Survivors Reach Safety

SUN 25 JUL 1943
Pacific
Destroyers and aircraft strike enemy position at Munda, Solomons.

Submarine Pompon (SS-267) damages Japanese transport Kinsen Maru and sinks army cargo ship Thames Maru, 02°46'N, 148°35'E.

Indian Ocean
Second group of survivors from U.S. freighter Alice F. Palmer, torpedoed, shelled and sunk by German submarine U-177 on 10 July 1943, reaches safety at Mozambique (see 26 and 30 July 1943).

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